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“When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.”

Thinking Looks Persons Grows Memories Taken Alive Photography Function Photograph Relate Life Experience Invitations

Author:Jason Fulford

“Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.”

Inspirational Body Memories Brain Consciousness Opinion Source Pure Ego Perception Function Objectives Tied Disturbed Dysfunction

Author:Pim van Lommel

“How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.”

Mind Ends Moving Next Hurt Memories Brain Function Importance Mark Meetings Insult Gestures Interfere Next Time Hurt Me You Hurt Me Simply You

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Art Whole Artist I Believe Memories Civilization Function I Believe In Burned

Author:Yoko Ono

“All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.”

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“We no longer see the evolution of the nervous system, but that of a certain individual. The role of the memory is very important but... not as important as we believe. Most of the important things that we do don't depend on memory. To hear, to see, to touch, to feel happiness and pain; these are functions which are independent of memory; it is an a priori thing. Thus, for me, what memory does is to modify that a priori thing, and this it does in a very profound way.”

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Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.”

Soul Form Memories Function

Author:Julia Cameron

“Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse a number of models (Hebb 1949 . . Hayek 1952 . . Kendel 1981) have been proposed in which various cognitive activities are represented by combinations of the firing patterns of individual neurons.”

Firsts Has Beens Ideas Individual Memories Numbers Activity Models Function Bases Patterns Various Combination Description Cognitive Firing Neurons Modification Hayek

Author:Gerald Edelman

“The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.”

Problem Memories Party Function Democrat Currents Presidential Candidates Charming Desperation Chairman Dean Presidential Candidate

Author:Joe Klein

“Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age.”

Age Found Memories Interesting Deals Attention Brain Adults Function Structure Sensory

Author:Philippa Perry

“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”

Thinking Believe Body Science Lying Certain I Believe Memories Taken One Thing Shapes Illusion All Things Function Senses Location Extensions Body Shapes

Author:Rene Descartes

“I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.”

Believe I Can Age I Believe Memories Function Aging Memorable

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.”

Mind Persons Book Memories Forget Break Worst Produce Function Down And Yesterday Idiot Telephones Breaking Down Grudge Savants

Book:Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays

“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.”

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.”

People Firsts Children Individual Social Memories Levels Attention Development Higher Concepts Function Logical Formation

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky